Jean Foley
@bellaprudy.bsky.social
I am a Socialist, and love nature and cats, i am pro EU and want PR, I am anti war, monarchy, zionist, fascist,
I am almost vegan
I am almost vegan
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Five years after a pandemic begins:
❌No clean air in schools
❌ No vaccines for flu and covid available to all
❌ No masks when things get worse
Result = flu everywhere, teachers and pupils sick
🆘No lessons learnt
❌No clean air in schools
❌ No vaccines for flu and covid available to all
❌ No masks when things get worse
Result = flu everywhere, teachers and pupils sick
🆘No lessons learnt
December 12, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Five years after a pandemic begins:
❌No clean air in schools
❌ No vaccines for flu and covid available to all
❌ No masks when things get worse
Result = flu everywhere, teachers and pupils sick
🆘No lessons learnt
❌No clean air in schools
❌ No vaccines for flu and covid available to all
❌ No masks when things get worse
Result = flu everywhere, teachers and pupils sick
🆘No lessons learnt
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"Get ready to enter a psychodrama tug-of-love over values, culture, economics, and arguments about GDP growth rates versus quality of life, defence, security, innovation and AI regulation. The lot will be fought over"
I said in Nov '24 - the UK will have to choose between the US and EU.
Choose EU.
I said in Nov '24 - the UK will have to choose between the US and EU.
Choose EU.
'Donald Trump's Election Means Reversing Brexit Is Now More Urgent Than Ever'
For the sake of Britain, Europe and humanity, it’s time for us to get back with the European team, argues Mike Galsworthy
bylinetimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"Get ready to enter a psychodrama tug-of-love over values, culture, economics, and arguments about GDP growth rates versus quality of life, defence, security, innovation and AI regulation. The lot will be fought over"
I said in Nov '24 - the UK will have to choose between the US and EU.
Choose EU.
I said in Nov '24 - the UK will have to choose between the US and EU.
Choose EU.
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Please remember this next time you hear Nigel Farage and Reform say we must leave the ECHR to control our borders
🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years”
Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏
Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏
December 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Please remember this next time you hear Nigel Farage and Reform say we must leave the ECHR to control our borders
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Snares are a crime against wildlife, but in England we allow them. Labour made a manifesto commitment to ban them - they need to deliver that. For Wildlife's sake.
December 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Snares are a crime against wildlife, but in England we allow them. Labour made a manifesto commitment to ban them - they need to deliver that. For Wildlife's sake.
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“It is the Brexit playbook:…
It did not work then and it will not work now. Because once you agree that rights are the real obstacle, you have already handed victory to those who want rid of them altogether.”
Important read on blaming the ECHR for govt failure.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It did not work then and it will not work now. Because once you agree that rights are the real obstacle, you have already handed victory to those who want rid of them altogether.”
Important read on blaming the ECHR for govt failure.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starmer is lobbying Europe to join him in watering down the ECHR. This illiberalism will harm us all | Steve Valdez-Symonds
The prime minister and his counterpart in Denmark want a concerted effort to weaken human rights across Europe. This isn’t pragmatism – it’s cruelty, says Steve Valdez-Symonds, refugee and migrant rig...
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
“It is the Brexit playbook:…
It did not work then and it will not work now. Because once you agree that rights are the real obstacle, you have already handed victory to those who want rid of them altogether.”
Important read on blaming the ECHR for govt failure.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It did not work then and it will not work now. Because once you agree that rights are the real obstacle, you have already handed victory to those who want rid of them altogether.”
Important read on blaming the ECHR for govt failure.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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NEW: Mapping England's Landscape Recovery projects
The Government refused to release maps of these groundbreaking projects to restore nature
So I had a go at mapping them myself
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whoownsengland.org/2025/12/10/m...
The Government refused to release maps of these groundbreaking projects to restore nature
So I had a go at mapping them myself
1/
whoownsengland.org/2025/12/10/m...
Mapping England’s Landscape Recovery Projects
This post is by Guy Shrubsole. Image: West Penwith, Cornwall – one of over 50 Landscape Recovery pilots. Since Brexit, the UK Government has been engaged in lengthy reforms of farm payments &…
whoownsengland.org
December 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
NEW: Mapping England's Landscape Recovery projects
The Government refused to release maps of these groundbreaking projects to restore nature
So I had a go at mapping them myself
1/
whoownsengland.org/2025/12/10/m...
The Government refused to release maps of these groundbreaking projects to restore nature
So I had a go at mapping them myself
1/
whoownsengland.org/2025/12/10/m...
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"If we're really concerned about criminals in this country, leaving the ECHR would be exactly like Brexit, in that it would have the opposite effect" - European Movement UK Chair, Dr Mike Galsworthy, on Keir Starmer's calls to reform the ECHR.
December 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"If we're really concerned about criminals in this country, leaving the ECHR would be exactly like Brexit, in that it would have the opposite effect" - European Movement UK Chair, Dr Mike Galsworthy, on Keir Starmer's calls to reform the ECHR.
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Hey Nottinghamshire.
This is how your Reform council is spending your money. Funded by your 4.84% council tax rise.
This is how your Reform council is spending your money. Funded by your 4.84% council tax rise.
December 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Hey Nottinghamshire.
This is how your Reform council is spending your money. Funded by your 4.84% council tax rise.
This is how your Reform council is spending your money. Funded by your 4.84% council tax rise.
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Much of the £10.9bn in taxpayer money lost to fraud and error in Covid support schemes is now "beyond recovery", a report has said
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Covid scheme fraud hit almost £11bn but much 'beyond recovery', report says
The response to the pandemic led to
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Much of the £10.9bn in taxpayer money lost to fraud and error in Covid support schemes is now "beyond recovery", a report has said
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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this is a direct consequence of the decisions made by the US to slash foreign health aid. BUT many European countries (inc UK) have also cut aid.
"For the first time in 25 years, child mortality rates for preventable diseases are projected to increase, after having declined for 25 years."
This is the legacy of aid cuts. ~AA
time.com/7338791/chil...
This is the legacy of aid cuts. ~AA
time.com/7338791/chil...
For the First Time This Century, Child Mortality Is Likely to Rise
The latest report from the Gates Foundation predicts an alarming trend for the health of children around the world.
time.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
this is a direct consequence of the decisions made by the US to slash foreign health aid. BUT many European countries (inc UK) have also cut aid.
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Israel is not allowing antibiotics, IV solutions or surgical material to enter besieged Gaza despite 2-month ceasefire.
No essential supplies in truce: Gaza’s healthcare system broken by Israel
Israel is not allowing antibiotics, IV solutions or surgical material to enter besieged Gaza despite 2-month ceasefire.
bit.ly
December 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Israel is not allowing antibiotics, IV solutions or surgical material to enter besieged Gaza despite 2-month ceasefire.
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Free zones offer corporations tax breaks worth billions, and are now being consolidated and expanded under Labour’s Industrial Strategy Zones Action Plan, they have merged the Tories' freeports and SEZs into Industrial Strategy Zones, including Starmer's AI Growth Zones (200 bids on sites to date)
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Free zones offer corporations tax breaks worth billions, and are now being consolidated and expanded under Labour’s Industrial Strategy Zones Action Plan, they have merged the Tories' freeports and SEZs into Industrial Strategy Zones, including Starmer's AI Growth Zones (200 bids on sites to date)
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The podcast is honestly the best I’ve ever listened to. It is like a ten part spy thriller; only not fiction, but real life, with British voters the victims, and too many British politicians choosing to turn a blind eye. Each episode is better than the last, devastating in conclusions. MUST HEAR.
I only recently listened to this extraordinary 10 part podcast - Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring by @peterjukes.bsky.social and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social . It’s gripping, chilling, and deeply disturbing. The facts of Russian intrusion into UK politics laid bare, in horrifying fashion.
Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social spell out what needs to happen - the same demand we’ve made for years.
We need a real, independent inquiry 🧵
🎧 Hear the full story: the-citizens.com/2025/02/serg...
We need a real, independent inquiry 🧵
🎧 Hear the full story: the-citizens.com/2025/02/serg...
December 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The podcast is honestly the best I’ve ever listened to. It is like a ten part spy thriller; only not fiction, but real life, with British voters the victims, and too many British politicians choosing to turn a blind eye. Each episode is better than the last, devastating in conclusions. MUST HEAR.
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Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
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The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
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"Simply removing juries without strengthening other parts of the criminal justice system would therefore be a false economy leading to a miscarriage of justice." From an excellent @prospectmagazine.co.uk piece by @davidallengreen.bsky.social:
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Why juries matter
Jury trials should not be deleted without properly funding other parts of the criminal justice system
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"Simply removing juries without strengthening other parts of the criminal justice system would therefore be a false economy leading to a miscarriage of justice." From an excellent @prospectmagazine.co.uk piece by @davidallengreen.bsky.social:
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
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This is scary. "Three of the five worst harvests on record have now occurred since 2020, leaving some farmers asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record
Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
This is scary. "Three of the five worst harvests on record have now occurred since 2020, leaving some farmers asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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“This is not “politics as usual.”
This is not even comparable to Watergate or Iran-Contra or any previous American political crisis.
This is an emissary of the POTUS…openly conspiring with Russian intelligence to betray 43 million Ukrainians and pillage up to $293 billion meant for war reparation”
This is not even comparable to Watergate or Iran-Contra or any previous American political crisis.
This is an emissary of the POTUS…openly conspiring with Russian intelligence to betray 43 million Ukrainians and pillage up to $293 billion meant for war reparation”
A Crime In Plain Sight: State Capture of Ukraine by Trump and Putin
How intercepted calls reveal a $293 billion war profiteering conspiracy orchestrated by a real estate developer, Russian intelligence, and American megadonors thechrissampson.substack.com/p/a-crime-in...
How intercepted calls reveal a $293 billion war profiteering conspiracy orchestrated by a real estate developer, Russian intelligence, and American megadonors thechrissampson.substack.com/p/a-crime-in...
A Crime In Plain Sight: State Capture of Ukraine by Trump and Putin
How intercepted calls reveal a $293 billion war profiteering conspiracy orchestrated by a real estate developer, Russian intelligence, and American megadonors
thechrissampson.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“This is not “politics as usual.”
This is not even comparable to Watergate or Iran-Contra or any previous American political crisis.
This is an emissary of the POTUS…openly conspiring with Russian intelligence to betray 43 million Ukrainians and pillage up to $293 billion meant for war reparation”
This is not even comparable to Watergate or Iran-Contra or any previous American political crisis.
This is an emissary of the POTUS…openly conspiring with Russian intelligence to betray 43 million Ukrainians and pillage up to $293 billion meant for war reparation”
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🔴 BREAKING: Our fake Chinese AI investor bought access to 10+ Labour MPs and minister
Brand new investigation by Democracy for Sale and Led By Donkeys.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...
Brand new investigation by Democracy for Sale and Led By Donkeys.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...
BREAKING: Our fake Chinese AI investor bought access into heart of Labour government
Ex-Tory MP facilitated meetings with 10+ Labour MPs and met ministers in “cash-for-access operation”
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
🔴 BREAKING: Our fake Chinese AI investor bought access to 10+ Labour MPs and minister
Brand new investigation by Democracy for Sale and Led By Donkeys.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...
Brand new investigation by Democracy for Sale and Led By Donkeys.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...
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Someone in the police dislikes an opinion you shared online, therefore, they scrutinise everything you’ve ever posted to see if they can use something against you
It’s worse when you consider they didn’t find anything incriminating, but went ahead with the prosecution anyway
It’s worse when you consider they didn’t find anything incriminating, but went ahead with the prosecution anyway
British government fails in bid to jail Palestine supporter on terrorism charges
In the UK’s latest political prosecution, a woman has been acquitted of thought crime after she expressed support for Palestinians.
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Someone in the police dislikes an opinion you shared online, therefore, they scrutinise everything you’ve ever posted to see if they can use something against you
It’s worse when you consider they didn’t find anything incriminating, but went ahead with the prosecution anyway
It’s worse when you consider they didn’t find anything incriminating, but went ahead with the prosecution anyway
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"In the ashes of war... Europe pulled together to create collaborative bodies designed to prevent a repeat of the horrors of Nazi Germany.
One such body was the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)."
One such body was the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)."
Remembrance: 75 years of the ECHR
The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) celebrates its 75th birthday this month – like all elders, it has a lifetime of wisdom to share
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"In the ashes of war... Europe pulled together to create collaborative bodies designed to prevent a repeat of the horrors of Nazi Germany.
One such body was the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)."
One such body was the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)."
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David Lammy’s Plans to Scrap Automatic Right to Appeal Risk ‘Increasing Miscarriages of Justice’
Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing “vital safeguards” and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing “vital safeguards” and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
David Lammy's Plans to Scrap Automatic Right to Appeal Risk 'Increasing Miscarriages of Justice'
Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing "vital safeguards" and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice
bylinetimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
David Lammy’s Plans to Scrap Automatic Right to Appeal Risk ‘Increasing Miscarriages of Justice’
Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing “vital safeguards” and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing “vital safeguards” and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
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1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
December 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
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Why Are Governments Racing to Implement AI Without Protecting Citizens?
I highly recommend four essential books that explain what's really happening, and why you should read them all.
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I highly recommend four essential books that explain what's really happening, and why you should read them all.
Thread
December 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Why Are Governments Racing to Implement AI Without Protecting Citizens?
I highly recommend four essential books that explain what's really happening, and why you should read them all.
Thread
I highly recommend four essential books that explain what's really happening, and why you should read them all.
Thread
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Here's the unvarnished reality of yesterday's pharmaceutical trade deal with the USA: Labour caved in. Folded. Blew it.
To avoid Trump's tariffs, they have committed the NHS to paying very significantly more for new drugs ie all the lifesaving medicines of the future.
archive.ph/2025.12.01-1...
To avoid Trump's tariffs, they have committed the NHS to paying very significantly more for new drugs ie all the lifesaving medicines of the future.
archive.ph/2025.12.01-1...
December 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Here's the unvarnished reality of yesterday's pharmaceutical trade deal with the USA: Labour caved in. Folded. Blew it.
To avoid Trump's tariffs, they have committed the NHS to paying very significantly more for new drugs ie all the lifesaving medicines of the future.
archive.ph/2025.12.01-1...
To avoid Trump's tariffs, they have committed the NHS to paying very significantly more for new drugs ie all the lifesaving medicines of the future.
archive.ph/2025.12.01-1...